The Palestinian detainee Rajaee Abdul Qader announced on Tuesday starting an open hunger strike after the Israeli committee for early releases in Eshel Israeli jail refused to issue him an early release order.

The lawyer of Detainees and Ex-detainees Committee Yousef Nasasra said that the Israeli committee claimed that the health condition of captive Abdul Qader is not serious and thus does not require urgent release.

Prisoner Abdul Qader 35 from Deir Ammar town near Ramallah is suffering from cancer in liver and lungs. His health condition has recently deteriorated.

The Palestinian detainee Husam al-Ruzzeh of Nablus city announced on Tuesday starting a hunger strike including refraining from drinking water a few hours after being arrested.

The leader of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) Maher Harb said that captive Ruzzeh told the lawyer of Palestinian Prisoner Society who visited him in Salem military camp that he started hanger striking since the early moment of his arrest.

Ruzzeh who is a leader of the PFLP was rounded up at dawn Tuesday from his home in the city. He had previously been arrested in Israeli jails where he served over 17 years of imprisonments mostly under illegal administrative detention.